Members of the Majlis of the Maldives: Mohamed Nasheed, Mohammed Waheed Hassan, Ibrahim Ismail, Abbas Ibrahim, Mohamed Latheef

Chapters: Mohamed Nasheed, Mohammed Waheed Hassan, Ibrahim Ismail, Abbas Ibrahim, Mohamed Latheef, Mohamed Munavvar, Ahmed Thasmeen Ali, Ilyas Ibrahim. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mohamed Nasheed (Dhivehi: )(born May 17, 1967) is the current President of the Maldives. He is the founder of the Maldivian Democratic Party and was its presidential candidate in the October 2008 presidential election, defeating long-time President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom in a second round of voting. He was sworn in as President on November 11, 2008. Nasheed is commonly known in the Maldives as Anni and is a former member of Parliament for Male. He was an outspoken critic of Gayoom and his policies. Due to his criticism of the government, over the years he was arrested and sentenced several times. As a boy Nasheed attended Majeediyya School in the Maldives, between 1971 and 1981. He continued his secondary school education overseas at the Overseas School of Colombo, from 1981 to 1982 until he completed his GCSE Ordinary Level Certificate. In August 1982 he moved to the United Kingdom where he completed his Higher Secondary Education at the Dauntsey's School in Wiltshire. Straight after his A-Levels, Nasheed moved north to Liverpool where he spent the next three years reading for a Bachelor of Arts in Maritime Studies at Liverpool's John Moores University. He was made an Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience in 1991 when he was being held in prison for a 1990 article in the political magazine Sangu in which he alleged the Maldivian government had rigged the 1989 general election. After being held in solitary confinement and reportedly tortured, he was accused of withholding information about a bombing plot. On April 8, 1992, he was sentenced to three years in ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2375585